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LE PETIT LIEUTENANT
Special Opening Event
year 2005 length 111' color 35mm country France
directed by Xavier Beauvois
Screenplay Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Breaud, Jean-Eric Troubat
Cast Nathalie Baye (Caroline Vaudieu), Jalil Lespert (Antoine Derouère), Roschdy Zem (Solo), Antoine Chappey (Mallet), Jacques Perrin (Clermont)
Cinematography Caroline Champetier
Art direction Alain Tchillinguirian
Editing Martine Giordano
Costumes design Marielle Robaut
Producer Pascal Caucheteux
Production
Why Not Productions
Co-production
Studio Canal, France 2 Cinéma
World Sales
StudioCanal
1, place du Spectacle
92863 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9 (France)
Tel. +331 7135 1113 Fax +331 7135 1189
www.studiocanal.com
synopsis
Antoine (Jalil Lespert) graduates from police academy and moves to the big city intent on making his contribution to the fight against crime. Captain Vaudieu (Nathalie Baye) takes him under her wing. Antoine fits easily into her team of work-hard, play-hard detectives. Then tragedy strikes and Vaudieu has to fight the memories that she used to drown in drink. Revenge is small comfort.
Le petit Lieutenant is Xavier Beauvois’ fourth long feature film after such acclaimed films as Nord (1991) and Cannes Jury Prize N’oublie pas que tu vas mourir (1995). In Le petit Lieutenant, Xavier Beauvois’ subtle and impressionistic mise-en-scène, dwells as much on his characters’ face than it follows the lead in this seeming film noir investigation. What’s important, seems to be saying Beauvois’ camera, is what lies just below the surface of emotions, looks and words left unsaid.
(Agnès Catherine Poirier)
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